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Taekwondo Development Taekwondo is a modern martial art that was founded in SouthKorea. Some practitioners consider it as a sport insteadof a martial art. This topic has been discussed a lot betweenmartial artists and sometimes inside the members of taekwondofamily its self. This debate may not have been existed if taekwondokept the traditional practice as many martial arts.

The development of taekwondo has changed many sides of thisdiscipline, and the new forms of sports that have been sandwichedin the martial art, such as dance. with intention or without anyintention have changed the real image of taekwondo.these kind of changes would turn taekwondo into a sport, and maybeone day taekwondo as a martial art would be seen as an old myth.some schools are still keeping the tradition of taekwondo, whileothers are teaching a very modern style, empty of any martial artessence, and filled by external exercises that have nothing to do withthe real taekwondo (dance, aerobics ...)The new development was made in order to spread taekwondoand make it a global discipline, which make us think if the qualityor the quantity that matters more! well, if it is a business matter,then the quality will not matter at all.We do agree that some changes in taekwondo made it more popular,and practiced by a huge population in the world,Comparing to many other martial arts,Taekwondo could be seenas one of the modern fighting disciplines that reached almost allcountries in the world, including the very poor cities and towns,Besides, the South Korean government has done a great job sincefifties until now, by sending Korean masters and Grand Mastersto many countries in the world in order to transmit the messageof taekwondo to the world. therefore, this strategy has workedso well, and nowadays everyone knows about taekwondo.In the other hand, we also should mention a positive step whenthe World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) formed the Para-TaekwondoCommittee in 2005 in order to promote and develop Taekwondoto athletes of all disabilities.In para taekwondo, the poomsae and kyorugi competition dividescompetitor into many classes based on the Disability of each athlete.According to what we see in the history of this Korean martial art,it seems that development is not going to stop at a certain stage,and after each period of time we may see something new. by Master S.H.E